<p>Nope, I'm not. My careers advisor thinks it's really strange, too. Whoops, maybe I'd better check to see whether they know that I'm living in Kuwait! I'm pretty sure I didn't make any silly mistakes on my UCAS application.</p>
<p>yeah there are...</p>
<p>i did mine in singapore...where it's so damn hard. Should have done it in msia instead.</p>
<p>Duncanctc, you said:
"Btw, A-level is much more difficult than those APs and definitely US high school.". </p>
<p>You should be very careful in making such a generalization. In the U.S. we have no national or even state-wide(there is some) school curricullums. Instead each school district/school is soverign in their educational decisions. There are many school districts in the US with extremely hard courseloads that offer more a academically intense courselaod than the A-levels. Thus, I would say it is wrong of you to make such a comment.</p>
<p>Does anyone know about Scotland's unis?</p>
<p>Which schools there would be the best for french us female student? Nicest campus? Most social fun school?</p>
<p>St Andrews looks like it's too isolated - looking at the map. I don't know about Edinburgh - it looks like it might not have a nice campus and be too big.</p>
<p>Any info would help.</p>
<p>nkay: one of the seniors at my school had to go from Korea to Cambridge for an interview! lol. But he took the opportunity to have a trip around Europe on the way anyway.</p>
<p>St' Andrews, Edinburgh and Glasgow are probably the only three unis in Scotland that are well-known.</p>
<p>Of course. Oxbridge are the only unis in the UK that actually require ALL applicants invited to attend the interview. Still, a trip from Korea to England is quite a long way to go.</p>
<p>UCL was kind enough to switch to a phone interview at my request (time and money were factors too big to be ignored), but I didn't think it was of much use. It lasted ten minutes and I don't think I'd expressed myself as well as I could have in a face to face interview. The very first thing my interviewer told me was that this sort of interview was unreliable, so I doubt it'll play a huge role in my admissions decision.</p>
<p>do these UK unis give financial aid/scholarship to international students ? are uk unis as generous in fin aid as hyps ?</p>
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<p>No, there is no such thing as financial aid in general. they charge internationals massive fees in order to subsidise the UK and EU undergrads who pay very little of the actual cost.</p>
<p>What about graduate study ? is it the same situation ?</p>
<p>Well being a grad is better, but not brilliant. Try the British Council (google for them) for a start. It's best to check out the web-sites of individual universities to see if they have any country-specific scholarships. Oxford has a few famous ones like Rhodes scholarships, but they are very competitive. Often people seem to have study abroad scholarships from the governments of their own countries or their undergrad college, not from the UK.</p>
<p>congrats anyone who got into Cambridge. Let me know if you did. i was at Peterhouse.</p>
<p>i do not agree that a-levels are harder than ap's at all. i'm a student at an american school doing the ap's, and my ap economics class recently went to an economics conference, where we met up with a-level students and a/s students... and they didn't know anything about economics at all. i think the british tend to think they are better than americans because they're in self-denial... the us is better in education than the uk is!</p>
<p>Maybe you just meet the wrong persons and were they not represential for the level of education in England.</p>
<p>Xmasspoop, I took both the AP and A Level economics exams...and let me tell you, AP Econ was significantoly easier than the A Level. I also took A Level Math and AP Math BC and again, the A Level was tougher. Same with French and History. In all, I took 4 A Level exams and 8 APs and the A Level exams were invariably tougher than the APs.</p>
<p>the exam itself may be easier, but the coursework (which varies from school to school) is a lot tougher i think... i myself have done a few A levels and APs, and in terms of getting good grades, APs at my school are harder</p>
<p>That may be the case...but in general, British and European high schools are significantly tougher than American high school. I would not even compare them. The average senior in Europe is taking university level classes. Americans catch up in University, but at the high school level, the European system is tougher.</p>
<p>"Does anyone know about Scotland's unis?"</p>
<p>Overall Edinburgh is the most prestigious of Scotlands universities while St.Andrews is still enjoying the name factor value of having a royal student. Glasgow has underachieved in recent years and is rarely ranked as high as one would expect of such an ancient and historically prominent university. Socially the best option would be Glasgow as it is based in the political and cultural centre of the nation although Edinburgh is a far more pleasing city on the eye. St.Andrews is a small town with a population not far over ten thousand and isnt really known for its nightlife although the major cities are fairly close. If the make up of the student body is important to you it may be worth considering the very anglo+private school make up of St.Andrews and Edinburgh which contrasts with the very scottish,state educated Glasgow .</p>
<p>"St' Andrews, Edinburgh and Glasgow are probably the only three unis in Scotland that are well-known."</p>
<p>Pretty much spot on although it should be mentioned that Dundee has been ranked extremely high internationally for the sciences and its faculty is one of the most commonly cited in the world.</p>
<p>Edinburgh is the political capital (home of the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood), and not Glasgow, pace ansiarach</p>